Site details

Kasteliana: Kastellos

PK	C2811
TITLE	Kasteliana: Kastellos
WGS84	35.045077° N, 25.260117° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.045077, 25.260117
LON/LAT	25.260117, 35.045077

DMS

35° 2' 42.2772" N

25° 15' 36.4212" E

W3W	ivories, inhabited, hoedown
UTM	35 S, 341312, 3879426
EGSA87	614779, 3878479

Elevation m	390
Elevation feet	1279.5
Region	Crete
Subregion	Monophatsion

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 183    '...the settlement...'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 183,  Size: 70000 sq. m.  Maximum. Nowicki does not say that the Dark Age settlement occupied this entire space. 'The large table-like top of this mountain measures c. 350 by 200 m ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, '...; the earliest fragments represent the LM IIIC period, ...'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, 'Pottery of Protogeometric and Geometric date is more numerous; ...'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, 'Pottery of Protogeometric and Geometric date is more numerous; ...'

4. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 183, '... Archaic ...'

NOTE

1. Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '83. Kasteliana Kastellos', pg. 183.